A passable B movie.

Elizabeth Russell (the "Countess") was best known for her brief but memorable roles in Val Lewton's "Cat People" and "The Seventh Victim." She livens up this film too, at least more than the corpses.

More of a quasi-horror film - there is nothing really horrible enough to frighten the viewer. As another reviewer pointed out, Bela Lugosi (Dr. Lorenz) plays his usual Bela Lugosi type character - but, a little less menacing than in others as the object of his machinations is his love for and devotion to his wife, Elizabeth Russell (Countess Lorenz) - there is a little tenderness underlying his evil. Luana Walters (Patricia Hunter) is good as the feisty and determined newspaper woman who solves the crime and almost looses her life in the process. Minerva Urecal (Fagah) and her two physically challenged sons Angelo [Rossitto] (Toby) and Frank Moran (Angel), also mentally challenged, add some spice to the mix. The other actors all do good jobs, even Vince Barnett (Sandy, the photographer) who adds a little tepid and unnecessary humor to the film.

It was a sweet little movie. I loved that for the time, the woman went out and got her story- even though she leaned on her future hubby a little. :) It wasn't badly played and it was a pretty good print.

I don’t think the logic of the story was too bad. The police probably considered the theft of a body not a big crime and therefore did not give the case a high priority, while the press saw the sensation of it. That is why the press was at the church and the police weren’t, I think.

I like this film very much. Bela Lugosi in his "one and only" role again, and he is perfect. I am not quite sure that he can play only this one, I found him convincing in "The Phantom Ship" too, which is different (I must admit, I am the only one! Look for yourself).

Of course, there are questionable points in the script, as Spuzz points out, but please read his review AFTER you watch the movie, NOT BEFORE!!! Too many SPOILERS!

This is a Sam Katzman production alright. Even though he co-produced and someone else directed, it has Katzman's finger prints all over it.
He did better with the Bowery Boys in pure comedies. This one looks like it could be a comedy very easily, and probably should have been. There are too few characters to handle Katzman's chaotic approach and too few comic reliefs. But it was probably a good Saturday matinee.

lugosi is one of those kind of actors that could not play any other role than a creepy fiend if a gun were put to his head.
not a bad movie at all.
there are two scenes in this film that are classic lugosi.where he shows his utter cruel personality that is just a joy to watch.
well worth the time

Rather nasty piece of business featuring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist (with yes, a Renfield-like assistant and his mother, a dwarf and yes, the scientistÂs wife (sounds like a Greenaway movie actually lol). Lugosi gives his wife injections from dead brides (why them? Who knows?) so that his wife can leep looking beautiful. He gets the brides after doing a pretty clever trick with some orchids that makes the brides collapse at the altar. After another bride bites the dust, a newspaper reporter just HAPPENS to be around for the scoop, and decides to snoop around for a story. She gets all sorts of clues about the orchids and Lugosi. Heaven knows where the police were.
Soon sheÂs off to BelaÂs lair, when she meets a sort of strange looking doctor who may or may not be eeeevil. It all cumulates in a totally farfetched plan to have a fake wedding to capture the mad scientist, but it seems that the scientist has x-ray vision, as he foils her plans, Oh no! What will happen?
I actually liked this movie as a bit of a guilty pleasure. Lugosi is great here, his hangers-on are all very very strange, the story is actually quite nasty in some places which makes it all most watchable. A fun little view.